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David Sacerdote @davidsacerdote.bsky.social · 10h

Looks like we are about to see a significant increase in snatch-and-grab operations around the Bay Area

408-290-1144 is the hotline for the Palo Alto/Mountain View area

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Exclusive: Major federal immigration operation headed to San Francisco Bay Area

The Trump administration has dispatched more than 100 federal agents, including from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to Coast Guard Base Alameda and they’ll begin to arrive Thursday.

www.sfchronicle.com

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MB @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social · 20m

Damn that's awesome

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MB @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social · 20m

I double majored with anthropology because there was a lot of crossover with cultural anth, but ended up getting really into archeology and physical anth by the last two years of college and did a lot more of that. And an international development minor

MB @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social · 25m

I hear sodium citrate is incredible for queso too

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MB @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social · 31m

I always love a fic with a bibliography!! And hey me too though I focused more on China and south Asia

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MB @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social · 35m

The accent transliterations alone are really something

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Joe Ruthvennryte @joelastname.bsky.social · 43m

Tom Green says it in Freddy Got Fingered

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MB @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social · 44m

I have also read some truly WILD Regency romances by Americans lol. And even wilder Scottish ones

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Rocketpilot 🇵🇸 @rocketpilot.xyz · 1h

Pro writers too - Elizabeth George, who writes the Inspector Lynley mysteries, is an anglophile who doesn't understand the English class system

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MB @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social · 48m

Yup we call it that here too!!

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MB @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social · 48m

Yeah, they're reasonably common here. I think the difference is that you can buy chicken lunchmeat or cold sandwich stuff like that but it's not wildly common? Apart from like, chicken salad which is its own thing? So if someone says chicken sandwich, you're getting a chicken burger type deal

MB @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social · 51m

Yum I'd eat any of those

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MB @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social · 55m

Yeah I think here if someone said chicken burger to me I'd assume ground chicken (burger but made of chicken). Like a turkey burger is ground turkey etc.

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MB @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social · 59m

Apparently it's what like everyone else calls chicken sandwiches

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MB @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social · 1h

Or can a chicken burger be grilled too

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MB @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social · 1h

Yup, just a chicken sandwich and maybe a fried chicken sandwich if you were ordering it or being more specific

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Bus Aficionada (spooky) @talkinghat.bsky.social · 1h

Like when someone names their protagonist “Harry Hole” and you’re like, “I wonder if the author knows what this sounds like in English”

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MB @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social · 1h

Americans are notoriously awful at this when they try to write "takes place in England/English schools" stuff

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MB @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social · 1h

Always funny when those regional things slip through, I always find it fun when reading fanfiction. I mean they're writing for free they have no obligation to me but it's just kinda fun

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MB @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social · 1h

Tbh it sounds like it's used in most non-US English

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MB @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social · 1h

I was reading a book set in California where they were having a BBQ and the main character was like "I started eating my chicken burger" and I was like 🤔

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MB @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social · 1h

I think the author grew up in Europe before moving to the US for a PhD so it must have just kinda snuck in there

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MB @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social · 1h

Like clearly it was a grilled chicken sandwich

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MB @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social · 1h

I was reading a book in the US where everyone was at a BBQ and the main character was like "I started eating my chicken burger" or something and it just felt so weird

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MB @mbcnotnbc.bsky.social · 1h

Do people use the term chicken burger in America

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